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As an update, I reset the MAC password and was able to sign in that way. Your info about partitions is helpful, now I know I just have to get after it like any other Windows machine *OR* re-install windows. At least I know. I'll keep you posted and if you think of anything, let me know. Thanks

Hi DeltaMac and thanks for your reply. When I hold "OPTION" at boot, I get MAC OS, Recovery HD and Windows. That means there is one more, could be the EFI partition. The MAC side seems to boot but I have to get a password for that. Windows goes into "Automatic Repair" and never repairs itself...

Hi, I'm mostly a windows guy and never need to get this deep in Macs. I'm trying to fix a MacBook Air with a Win 7 Bootcamp. I'm having troubles with the bootmanager. When I boot to a Win 7 DART disk, I can look at Windows Disk Manager and there are 4 partitions, 1 is bootcamp, 3 are...

Try running a disk repair. An I/O error can be a problem accessing the disk.

Thanks very much EDCC. As strange as it sounds, I don't know a lot about Macs but I can't seem to find many that know more than me. I looked over the AGP and my Mac card has a LOT more connector than any other AGP card I've seen. The AGP card available on that site doesn't support the Dual G5s...

I have a Dual G5 1.8 Powermac with what I think is a bad Geforce 5200 card. Sometimes it will not boot and if I pull out and reseat the video card it will then boot again. Can I use ANY MAC AGP card? How about PCi cards? Or do I have to use a Geforce 5200? I just want to get it up and running...

I have had good luck with older Belkin stuff. I went through their support, found an adapter that had OSX drivers and dug one up on ebay. It was an F5D6050.

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I've seen a higher than average number of Lacie drives die. It can be the power supply but the ones I have seen have bad circuit boards. I have had one that wouldn't read out of the Lacie case so I used an external power source for the drive in the case and got the data off.

Nobody has a guess on this?

I have a Dual 2.0G G5 Power Mac here. When you plug the power into the machine, it automatically powers up. The fans come on low and the power light is on. There is no hard disk sound or video. There is no chime or sign of any intelligence. The LED #7 (Checkstop) is on and solid red. I have...

It was identified in the log as an Adaptec 78xx.

Here's what I would do: Have someone remove the IDE harddrive from the Wallstreet and put it in a USB (or firewire) external harddrive bay by using a 2.5 IDE to 3.5 IDE adapter. Then plug it into your eMac.

www.mediafour.com has a program called MacDrive that allows a PC to read a MAC formatted drive. I would only use this as a temp measure, though. If you have an ongoing need to use it on both the Mac and a PC, format it with the Fat32 file system on a PC. Both will be able to read and write to it.

Any "ethernet to parallel" print server should do the trick. To make it easier on yourself, have a friend with a PC laptop come set it up for you. That kind of thing is always easier on a PC because the utils are PC based. Then you can connect to it with your Mac via IP address very simply.

You can try what I just did. I used a belkin wireless bridge to hook up to my existing wireless network. You have to configure it with the SSID and encryption of your network, and also the wireless MAC address of the router you want to hook it to so it knows where to connect (because it's a...

OK, so after struggling trying to figure it out, I resigned myself to the fact it will take 3.5 minutes to boot up but seems to run OK after that. I brought it back to the guy's house and hooked it up. When I attached his external SCSI CDRW to it, it started booting normally. DAMMIT!

Hello, I have a graphite G4 400 tower with PCI graphics that has a VERY slow boot. Like 3.5 minutes. It comes up gray Apple symbol, then after about 10 seconds the little circular dangle starts spinning. It will hit the hard drive a bit (judging by the light by the connector), until 50sec or...